Prince’s circulation list could lose him privacy case

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The Prince of Wales was “ill-advised” in fighting the publication of personal documents in a Sunday newspaper, according to a leading media lawyer.

Mark Stephens, a partner at Finer Stephens Innocent, believes that The Mail on Sunday did not breach copyright and confidentiality when it published extracts from Prince Charles’s journal, since the Prince himself had already photocopied and passed on extracts of his journals to numerous associates.

“He circulated this to friends, acquaintances, politicians, members of the cloth, journalists, so it’s hardly confidential,” Mr Stephens told Times Online. “It’s been so widely circulated that anything that was private about